Garment-hanger.



J. T. BATTS.

GARMENT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 21, 1910.

980,908, 1 Patented Jan. 10, 1911.

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' GAItllIENT-HANGER Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 21, 1810. SerialNo. 560,722.

Patented Jan. 10, 1911.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN THoMAs BA'rrs, a citizen of the United Statesof America, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State ofMichigan, have 1nvented certain new and useful Improvements inGarment-Hangers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My invention relates to improvements in garment hangers and moreparticularly to hangers for coats and the like, and its object is toprovide a hanger that will engage and support the coat in such mannerthat the shape of the coat is maintained by the hanger; and to at thesame time provide a hanger of such form that a series of the same may bearranged in close relation with coats thereon, whereby a number of coatsmay be arranged in small space, and to provide the device with variousnew and useful features as hereinafter more fully described andparticularly pointed out in the claims.

To this end my device consists essentially of a hanger, having acentralportion adapted to engage the middle of the collar of a coat andfirmly support the same, downwardly and oppositely inclined armsrearwardly convex to engage the rear portion of the shoulders of thecoat and maintain the shape of the shoulders substantially as when thecoat is on the user, and each arm thence terminating in forwardlyprojecting convex ends adapted to carry forward the shoulder portions ofthe coat where joined to the upper part of the sleeves, engaging andsupporting the same, substantially as does the front and top of theshoulder of the wearer of the coat, said device is also in plan viewquite narrow horizontally throughout, being concave at the front toconform to the front convexity of the coat when in use, whereby thefront will reverse uniformly into convex form and come close against theback of the same, each arm also being -concave at the rear near the endto permit the convex rear part of the sleeve to smoothly reverseagainst, or close to, the front of the sleeve and to receive the frontconvexity of 'the next adjacent hanger. The general result being thatthe middle of the collar, the rear of the-shoulders, and the front ofthe sleeve and the shoulders adjacent thereto, are all supportedsmoothly and convex as when on Q the humanfigure; and the front of thecoat body and the rear of the sleeves smoothly reversed in concave formas worked in by the tailor, whereby the horizontal thickness is reducedto a minimum and the garment is not distorted in shape, and a series ofgarments may be packed very closely one in front of the other, as willfully appear by reference to the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a device embodying my invention; Fig. 2a plan view of the same; and, Fig. 3 an end elevation of the same.

- Like numbers refer to like parts in all of the figures.

1 represents the middle or neck portion of the device, which is upwardlyprojecting, forwardly inclined, and rearwardly convex and also narrow topermit the collar to hang closely around the same without stretching andto thus smoothly engage and firmly support the middle of the coat collarand se-. curely hold the coat centrally on the device.

At each side of this neck portion are top and front concavities 2 topermit the side and front portions of the collar to fold downward andrearward smoothly and close to the back of the coat. From thence, armsextend outward in opposite directions being inclined downward and alsorearwardly convex as at 3, being also slightly upwardly convex near themiddle of their length whereby these portions engage the rear shoulderportions of the coat and hold the same smoothly, as when on theshoulders of the person. The outer ends of the arms are thence curvedforward, and terminate in forwardly curved and upwardly convex ends, asat} 4, which engage the upper forward parts ofthe coat where theshoulder and sleeve are joined and smoothly support the'samesubstantially as do the shoulder of the person where the arm joins theshoulder. These endsthus hold the front of the shoulder and sleeveconvex and smooth.

The device in plain view is of substantially uniform and'smallhorizontaldimensions throughout, thus permitting the whole middle frontof the coat to fall inward and concave form, whereby the coat occupiesbut little space horizontally and at the same time is smoothly held inproper shape the same as when worn by a person, the whole body portionbeing convex at the rear and concave at the front and the extreme pointsof the shoulders and the sleeves convex at the front and concave at therear, the convex front of the shoulder and sleeve fitting into theconcave rear of the next in the series.

What I claim is l. A- garment hanger, comprising an upwardly andforwardly inclined and rearwardly convex neck portion, oppositely anddownwardly inclined arms having rear- 'wardly convex shoulder portionsand terminating in forwardly and upwardly convex ends to engage andsupport the front shoulder ortions of a coat where the shoulder and sceve of the same are joined.

2. A garment han er, comprising an upwardly and forwardly inclined andrearwa-rdly convex narrow neck portion having top and front concavitiesat each side thereof and adapted to receive and centrally su port thecollar portion of a coat, opposite y extended and downwardly inclinedarms esopoe havin middle ortions rearwardly convex and a so slightyupwardly convex to engage the rear shoulder portions of a coat, saidarms also terminating in ends forwardly extended and upwardly andforwardly convex to engage the coat where the shoulder joins the sleeveand also rearward] y concave to permit the sleeve to reverse in concaveform at the rear.

3. A garment hanger consistin of a structure of moderate andsubstantizfily uniform horizontal thickness throughout and comprising anupwardly rojecting rearwardly convex and forwar ly concave narrow middleportion having top and front concavites at its res ective sides,oppositely extended, downwar 1 having a middle portion rearwardly convexand forwardly concave, and also slightly upwardly convex, and ends tothe arms upwardly and forwardly convex and rearwardly concave.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

- JOHN THOMAS BATTS.

' Witnesses:

PALMER A. Jones, LUTHER V. MoUL'roN.

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